Thread: Rock Monsters

Chris63 has made 218 posts and is a Hobbit from Hobbiton and is not online.
Posted Friday 7th January 2011 (01:29am)

Was listening to the audio CD last night read by Martin Shaw, and it was at the part when
Bilbo and company were stuck in the mountains. Amid the thunder and lightning the Rock
Monsters were to be seen hurling rocks at each other for fun.
Should make for a great scene in the film (if its in)
What would they look like?
There is a rock monster of sorts in Hellboy 2, but hope PJ can create somthing a little better.
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Ringdrotten has made 389 posts and is a Hobbit from Hobbiton and is not online.
Posted Friday 7th January 2011 (02:35am)

I hope he puts that scene in, I always liked that one very much. I am a bit worried about it though, it's a scene I can imagine Jackson will leave out. Then again, he might like it and keep it in. He could really play around with the special effects on that scene No idea what they might look like though, but if they do make it into the film, I am pretty confident that Weta won't disappoint us

Pettytyrant101 has made 1383 posts and is a Hobbit from Buckland and is not online.
Posted Friday 7th January 2011 (03:16am)

Two ways I see that scene going in the movie- not there at all as it could be construed as not 'fitting' with the LotR tone they seem to be striving for, or just as bad, a CGI fest with the line about the dwarves afraid they might be accedently mistaken for rocks and picked up and hurled becoming an excuse for an over the top life threatening scene that goes on for ages.
The one thing we can be certain we won't get is what is in the book.

Pettytyrant101 has made 1383 posts and is a Hobbit from Buckland and is not online.
Posted Sunday 9th January 2011 (01:09pm)

The background is very similar to the one used for Rohan. Particularly the three hunters scenes. No idea if it is or not but a similar landscape of grass and rocky outcrops.
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Gandalfs Beard has made 2311 posts and is an Elf from Rivendell and is not online.
Posted Thursday 13th January 2011 (11:03pm)

I think it was supposed to be Giants hurling Rocks, not necessarily Rock Monster Giants.
Besides, they were never seen but heard. It was purely Narrative Speculation that it was Giants hurling rocks causing the Thunder. Still, I think it would be brilliant to include ACTUAL Giants hurling Rocks.
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Pettytyrant101 has made 1383 posts and is a Hobbit from Buckland and is not online.
Posted Friday 14th January 2011 (12:00am)

From TH;
' ...he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among trees far below....'
and,
'This won't do at all!' said Thorin, 'If we don't get blown off, or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football.'
So definetly giants who hurl rocks about- and dwarfs play football- who knew!

Pettytyrant101 has made 1383 posts and is a Hobbit from Buckland and is not online.
Posted Friday 14th January 2011 (06:04pm)

Mmmm? Hobbits playing golf and dwarves playing football. Wonder what they play in Gondor?
There's a whole sporting side to ME I had never given consideration to before!
Still don't fancy playing a game footy against a team of dwarves. Bet their defenc e is something fierce.

Gandalfs Beard has made 2311 posts and is an Elf from Rivendell and is not online.
Posted Monday 17th January 2011 (01:04am)

[quote="pettytyrant101":2486a85c]From TH;
' ...he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among trees far below....'
and,
'This won't do at all!' said Thorin, 'If we don't get blown off, or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football.'
So definetly giants who hurl rocks about- and dwarfs play football- who knew![/quote:2486a85c]
Thanks Petty! You'd never know that I reread the Hobbit last Spring . Ah, that's what old age does to the memory synapses . I could have sworn that the passage read that they only heard the Stone Hurling Giants.
Hear that PJ? We want Boulder Tossing Giants!
[b:2486a85c]GB[/b:2486a85c]

Pettytyrant101 has made 1383 posts and is a Hobbit from Buckland and is not online.
Posted Monday 17th January 2011 (09:37am)

'Hear that PJ? We want Boulder Tossing Giants!'-GB
Yes and no. I want them in there but I don't want a ridiculous cg scene that goes on for fifteen minutes to cover what is a line and a half of book. But its PJ so thats probably what we'll get as the Man with No Constraint rides into town once more.

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